Resources on Muslims for the Entertainment Industry
The MOST Story Bank is a live archive of stories on the most current events, people and cultural perspectives of Muslims in America and around the world. With writers in mind, MOST carefully selects story-driven news from the most reputable published sources.
Last week, voters elected the first Muslim woman to hold office in the state of North Carolina. Nida Allam was voted on Tuesday as a member of Durham County’s Board of Commissioners. Here's what … [Read more...]
Thanks to the Library of Congress, the only known existing autobiography of a slave written in Arabic in America is now freely available to the public online. Born in 1770, Omar ibn Said lived in … [Read more...]
Ten days after her synagogue was brutally attacked, Beth Kissileff visited her first mosque. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting took place on October 27, 2018, at the Tree of Life in the Squirrel Hill … [Read more...]
According to Denise A Spellberg, author of Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an, Thomas Jefferson not only owned a Quran but had the foresight to believe that Muslims would be future citizens of America and … [Read more...]
Military.com reports: Airmen will be allowed to wear up to 2-inch beards under a new Air Force guidance that outlines grooming standards for religious accommodations.The updated grooming policy … [Read more...]
Last week Ibrahim Baycora, 60, became Paterson, New Jersey's first Muslim police chief. He was sworn in by Andre Sayegh, the city’s first Arab-American mayor. NJ.COM proclaims the duo are "making … [Read more...]
For the first time in Iowa state history, five local mosques will be official caucus locations. As Dean Obeidallah, with the Daily Beast, writes: "... caucuses are usually held at schools, … [Read more...]
The New York Times reports: President Trump on Friday added six countries to his list of nations facing stringent travel restrictions, a move that will virtually block immigration from Africa’s … [Read more...]
Laleh Ispahani, who is the managing director of the Open Society Foundations, writes in this CNN op-ed about the difficulty she faces as a Muslim explaining the Travel/Muslim ban to her young … [Read more...]
New York Times reports: It has been almost three weeks since Nawres Waleed Hamid, a naturalized citizen who grew up in Iraq, became the latest American to die in the United States’ nearly … [Read more...]
